Quotes About Harmony

Forgiveness is the fruit of understanding

True symbolism depends on the fact that things, which may differ from one another in time, space, material nature, and many other limitative characteristics, can possess and exhibit the same essential quality.

There are laws for peace as well as war.

In everything the middle course is best: All things in excess bring trouble to men.

Le persone sono come le parole. Da sole non significano niente, diventano belle se le metti bene insieme.

Only if we manage to see the universe as a single entity, in which every part reflects the whole and whose great beauty lies precisely in its variety, will we be able to understand exactly who and where we are. Letters agains the war: Letter from Orsigna, 2001.

Cada vez que se levantan los cimientos de una casa nueva o que se excava un pozo, se prepara un altar dedicado al Espíritu de la Tierra para excusarse por las molestias causadas por el trabajo y pedirle protección para los tiempos venideros.

La posición que una tumba ocupe en la naturaleza es importantísima. Una tumba bien ubicada y bien expuesta a la "respiración cósmica" puede hacer que el alma del difunto viva en el más allá, y reportar felicidad y bienestar a generaciones futuras. Contrariamente, la tumba mal dispuesta de un antepasado puede causar continuas desgracias a sus descendientes.

Che errore è stato allontanarsi dalla natura! Nella sua varietà, nella sua bellezza, nella sua crudeltà, nella sua infinita, ineguagliabile grandezza c'è tutto il senso della vita. Se mai vi viene a mancare, come mi stava succedendo, basta tornare qui, alla natura, alle origini di tutto, all'albero da cui siamo saltati giù avant'ieri, uomini miei vestiti di boria e di gessato grigio.

Il problema è che fino a quando penseremo di avere il monopolio del <>, fino a che parleremo della nostra come LA civiltà, ignorando le altre, non saremo sulla buona strada".

Don't go chasin' waterfalls. Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to.

Rhyme is bullshit. Rhyme says that everything works out in the end. All harmony and order. When I see a rhyme in a poem, I know I'm being lied to. Go ahead, laugh! It's true—rhyme's a completely bankrupt device. It's just wishful thinking. Nostalgia.

When we fail to harmonize and integrate, living systems, from individuals to families and countries, tend to move toward either chaos or rigidity.

We don't merely want to see beauty: we want to become part of it.

This is all we are at our best, he thought, tiny instances accumulating up into a greater whole.

I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.

The narcissism of small differences leads to the most boring kind of conformity.

What I mean is," Robert said nervously, "the whole idea of The Wave is that the people in it have to support it. If we're really a community, we all have to agree.

Trout Fishing in America.

In my experience what goes on inside us is reflected on the outside, and vice versa. Perhaps they are two aspects of the same thing. You can either clean up your act in what we think of as the real world and this will clarify what is within, or you can work from the other direction.

The important lesson here is to see what you can leave out of your life. If you consider music, for example, it is obvious that the space between the notes makes all the difference.

Si tout le monde ne se battait que par conviction il n'y aurait pas de guerre (Guerre et Paix, livre premier, 1ère partie, ch. VI)

The way to do away with war is for those who do not want war, who regard participation in it a sin, to refrain from fighting.

I choose them both because these worlds can, in fact, coexist.'158